Attractions of Lviv region

The wooden church of the Holy Prophet Illya is located in Monastyr-Lishnianskyi, a village of Lishnia.

Since 1570, there was a monastery here. The current Saint Illya Church was built in 1698 and reconstructed two centuries later.

The Latin-type temple is distinguished by the simplicity of its forms. The iconostasis dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The last restoration was carried out in 1992.

A peculiarity of the church's architecture is that the western part, along the perimeter of which there is an emporium on the second floor, does not protrude from the foundation, but is supported by carved columns.

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Hlyniany was built in 1791-1831 in the style of early classicism, but at the beginning of the 20th century it was rebuilt in the neo-baroque style.

Before that, several wooden churches were built in Hlyniany from the 14th century, which often burned during fires. The new stone temple was consecrated in 1840 - these numbers are indicated on the facade. The main shrine was the icon of the Mother of God of Lopatyn, which was taken to Poland at the end of the Second World War.

In Soviet times, the building was used as a warehouse, then as office premises.

In 2000, the restored Church of the Holy Spirit was re-consecrated. It belongs to the Roman Catholic community of the city.

The unique Church of the Sending of the Holy Spirit in Potelych is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine. Included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine".

The Church of the Holy Spirit was built in Potelych in 1502 by local potters on the site of an even older church of Saints Borys and Hlib. The church is three-log, two-headed, with a canopy on the crowns and brackets. The central log house is covered with a tent top with one fold, the eastern one with an octagonal top with a lantern and a top, the babinets is covered with a pitched roof. The west and south doors are decorated with wrought iron hinges of artistic work. Wrought window bars were made during the renovation in 1736.

The interior features a monumental painting from the 1620s.

The Holy Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych was built in 1690-1709 in the Baroque style as a Catholic church of the Carmelite monastery.

In 1808, the church passed to the Basilians and was consecrated as the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity. In 1909, an iconostasis was installed (carving was performed by Lviv master Andriy Sabaray, icons were painted by Modest Sosenko). In the 1930s, the walls were painted by Ivan Bal.

In recent years, the Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych was completely restored. Currently, it is the main church of the Sambir-Drohobych eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

On the anniversary of the execution of the participants of the Revolution of Dignity on the Maidan in Kyiv, a memorial sign was installed on the facade of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in honor of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and fallen soldiers of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Parish Museum, created in 2014 on the first anniversary of Bishop Yuliyan's death, operates in the basement of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The museum premises consist of three halls.

In the first hall, antimins consecrated by bishops in various historical periods of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as liturgical books and items of church use, are on display for inspection. ​In the second hall, personal belongings and paraphernalia related to the activities of Bishop Yuliyan (Voronovsky) are on display. In the third hall (crypts for burials), bishop vestments and liturgy items used by Bishop Yuliyan are on display.

The Defense Church of the Holy Trinity was built in Olesko in 1481 in the Renaissance style. In 1625-1627, the then owner of Olesko, Ivan Danylovych, added two side chapels to the church, which were later consecrated in honor of the Most Holy Mother of God and Saint John the Theologian.

The church was heavily damaged during a fire in 1806, was rebuilt in 1809, but burned again in 1841 and was rebuilt in 1847. As a result of these events, the interior lost its original Gothic character and received support pillars that divide it into naves. In 1927, the church was once again modified during another restoration.

The main dominant feature of the building is the round defensive bell tower. The epitaph to Ivan Danylovych (1618) has been preserved.

In 1945, the Soviet authorities closed the temple and used it as a warehouse. In 1993, the church was handed over to the community of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Today, is the temple of the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Shchyrets was founded in the 16th century. In the first half of the 19th century, it was rebuilt and acquired a modern appearance.

Composed of limestone, single-nave. The western facade is finished with a high pincer, decorated on the sides with decorative vases. Covered with a pitched roof, finished in the center with a signature. The undivided surfaces of the walls are enlivened by sparsely spaced semicircular window and door openings.

In Soviet times, the museum of atheism was located here.

The Trinity Church belongs to the few works of the Galician school of architecture of the 16th century.

The belfry is wooden, square in plan, three-tiered, frame construction, finished with a tent. It rests on a stone fence made of limestone from the south and east.

The Church of the Holy Trinity was founded in Sokolivka (the former town of Senyavka) in 1594 at the expense of the owner of the town, Anna Senyavska. The construction was completed around 1600 by the Belgian castellan Stanislav Vlodek.

The temple had defensive significance. At the beginning of the 16th century, it was surrounded by stone fortifications with corner towers, which were rebuilt in the 17th century.

Until the 19th century, the Trinity Church had 3 altars, its interior was decorated with sculptures and paintings.

The altar part was destroyed during the Second World War, and the building itself began to collapse even today, after the roof collapsed.

The wooden church of the Cathedral of Holy Virgin is located in Verkhnie Synovydne on the monastery site of the Golden Mountain, where in ancient times there was a monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos, which was visited by Prince Danylo Halytskyi.

After the monastery was destroyed in the 16th century, the monastery was empty for some time. In 1790, the church of Saint George (Yuriy) was founded in the northeastern part of the former monastery (perhaps on the site of the former monastery church).

The current church was built on the site of the fallen predecessor in 1939 according to the project of the architect Yevhen Nahirnyi.

Today it is the church of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (the Cathedral of the Mother of God).

The wooden church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Matkiv is located on a low hill in the center of the village and occupies a dominant place in the panorama of the mountain village.

Included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine".

The church was built by Boyko masters Ivan Melnykovych and Vasyl Ivanykovych, and is characterized by an unusual multi-tiered structure. In plan, the temple consists of three square log cabins: a larger central one and smaller side ones. All log cabins are covered with helmet-shaped partitions with intercepts on pyramidal figures of eight with folds (the central head has five folds, the lateral ones have four folds each).

Nearby is a wooden belfry built in 1924 with a balcony on the second floor.

Both buildings are considered masterpieces of the Boyko school of folk architecture.

The chapel in honor of the victory near Khotyn is located at the entrance to the village of Novyi Myliatyn on the route Kyiv - Lviv.

The monument was erected by order of King Yan III Sobesky in honor of the joint victory of the Cossacks led by Petro Sahaydachny and the Polish army near Khotyn in 1621.

The chapel has the form of a three-tier tower-pillar with niches in the form of arches on each tier.

The main building of the Lviv State University of Life Safety was built in 1855-1863 by order of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph as a House for the Invalids to care for veterans of the Austrian army.

The three- to four-story building in the neo-Romanesque style with towers and a courtyard was designed by the architect Teofil Edvard Hansen.

In 1939-1941, the NKVD regiment was stationed here. During the Second World War, the building was not damaged, and a military unit was located in it again.

Since 1954, the former House for the Invalids has been home to a fire-technical school - now the University of Life Safety.

In Pustomyty, they call the "House with lions" a palace in the style of classicism, located in a park - a monument of garden and park art of the 19th century.

There is no reliable information about the construction of the palace. Presumably, the manor was founded at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, when Pustomyty were owned by Yakub Dominskyi. The building is two-story, rectangular with an attic and a baroque roof. The main facade is decorated with a risalite with a pediment. The park facade has a faceted risalite, built on a terrace.

The palace building was rebuilt in the 1920s, after which it lost its light and elegant silhouette. It was then that lions were installed in front of the entrance. The interiors of two octagonal halls on the first and second floors have been preserved.

Currently, the "House with Lions" houses some departments of the Pustomyty administration.

The picturesque and full-water Gurkalo waterfall is a hydrological monument of nature.

It is located on the territory of the National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" at an altitude of 570 meters above sea level, on the slope of Mount Parashka at the mouth of the Velyka Richka River.

It was formed at the place of the breakthrough of Paleogene sandstones. The height is about 5 meters. The Hurkalo waterfall is surrounded by a forest, and there are several meadows nearby for relaxation.

You can get there from the village of Korchyn or from the village of Krushelnytsia, from which a marked path leads to the Hurkalo waterfall. Due to the bad condition of the road, it is very difficult to enter by car.

The Iliv settlement-sanctuary of the 8th–10th centuries is a part of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Stilsko Settlement".

It is located 5 kilometers to the east of the Stilsko settlement, the ancient capital of the Slavic tribe of White Croats.

The settlement is located on a promontory of the plateau at a height of about 80 meters above the Ilovets River, which washes its foothills partly from the northern and western sides. Traces of two concentric defensive ramparts and ditches are still visible on the high, rocky, forest-covered Tokareva Mountain, which rises above the southern outskirts of the village of Iliv. There is also a rock with three small caves. One of them is a cave-room, hollowed out of the rock by human hands. The entrance to the cave is made in the form of a woman's womb. Perhaps the goddess Mokosha was once worshiped here.

Presumably, the Iliv settlement was the main sanctuary of the White Croats. Later, monks settled in the caves, and during the Second World War, local residents and UPA soldiers hid here.

A very steep path equipped with a wooden handrail leads to the cave complex.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lopatyn was built in 1772 at the expense of Adam Kholonevsky based on one of the projects previously developed by the Lviv architect Bernard Meretyn.

Before that, there was a wooden church in Lopatyn. The new Catholic church - a replica of the Church of the Holy Cross in Berezdivtsi - was built in a magnificent baroque style and decorated with rich frescoes by Stanislav Stroyinskyi. The consecration took place in 1828.

After the Second World War, the shrine was closed, and the icon of the Mother of God of Lopatyn, which was kept in the church, was taken to Poland.

Today, the Church of the Virgin Mary has been returned to the faithful and restored at the expense of the Polish public.